ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,957, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Airbus Operations GmbH (Hamburg, Germany).
"Load introduction system and method for manufacturing a load introduction system" was invented by Oliver Seack (Hamburg, Germany) and Kathrin Stubbe (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load introduction system comprising an aerodynamic component and an attachment unit. The attachment unit comprises a first and a second attachment element, each of the first and the second attachment element having a mounting interface that mounts the attachment unit to a skin section and to a protrusion of the aerodynamic component. The first and the secon...